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ruins of o’noa adventures from the wounds Thordak left here may corrupt areas of
the land for generations to come, if no one figures out
thiS too Solid fleSh
how to cleanse them.
For low-level characters: New O’Noa is a seedy town filled While the crater within the Cloudtop has received
with strange magic. A serious suude addict named Shef intense attention due to the affluent nature of the vicin-
Silverleaf is in major debt to Waken, the tiefling leader of ity, the land devoured by the Scar was mostly outer
the town. Hired by Waken to aid in collecting his debt, farmland and forest, occupied by serfs and laborers.
the party breaks down his door to discover that Shef’s Some displaced survivors whisper that the members of
body has been turned to solid silver. Was this foul play, or the Council are more concerned with rebuilding their
poetic justice? Waken will take Shef’s solid silver corpse mansions than healing the Scar. Whether or not these
as payment, but what if the silver-skinned man were still concerns are valid, the fact remains that thousands of
alive and able to magically walk away? Emonian families still have not found a home, and many
have turned to thievery, banditry, and burglary to make
scar of ends meet.
flamereach outpost
the cinder King
Flamereach Outpost is a stout, makeshift fortress of
unassuming gray stone that stands at the edge of the Scar.
The realm around Emon will never fully recover from Its denizens keep watch over the Shivergreen Grove, a
Thordak’s elemental corruption. His presence not only small forest at the edge of the Scar that never stopped
incinerated his enemies, it wounded the land itself. Even burning. The trees of Flamereach Grove, as it is now
the Pyrah Ashari, called from across the sea by the called, are little but blackened skeletons, but they burn
Council of Tal’Dorei, could not completely mend the eternally. The fortress was built as a base for the druids
devastation. The wounds under and east of Emon are not and elemental specialists who traveled to Emon to heal
the extent of Thordak’s destruction—his indelible power the Scar. Led by a half-orc fire ashari named Lorkathar,
lingers in several isolated corners of Tal’Dorei, such as a group of firetamers from Pyrah keep constant vigil
the Ashen Gorge and the ruins of Serpent’s Head—but over the supernatural devastation, and those who watch
their proximity to such a large social capital makes them the undying flames at night swear they can see creatures
the most devastating. The invisible power that radiates moving within.
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